The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), partnering with Foodtech HUB Latam, is expanding its Food Accelerator Network (FAN) to Brazil, where it will open a hub that will help develop burgeoning agrifood-tech start-ups in the Latin America...
German discount store Penny’s recent week-long trial saw it raise product prices based on their environmental impact, prompting the food sector to consider whether a ‘climate cost’ model is coming to our retailers and wholesalers.
EIT Food, the world’s largest food innovation community, has announced the results of its Marketed Innovation Prize, designed to reward innovative food start-ups that have successfully brought products or services to market. EIT Food is supported by the...
EIT Food has launched its 2023 Entrepreneurship Programmes, designed to offer support to entrepreneurs to scale up their agrifood startups working to solve global food system challenges and deliver new innovations worldwide.
EIT Food’s Learning Services for Employers programme – created with academic and corporate partners, including the University of Reading and the Fraunhofer Institute, and in consultation with industrial partners such as PepsiCo – provides a clear benchmark...
Agrifood SMEs are crucial to the development of much-needed innovation in the food system but encounter limited access to scale up facilities and technological proficiency, reveals a new report from EIT Food, the food arm of the EU-funded European Institute...
A new report by EIT Food – one of eight communities to boost innovation and entrepreneurship across Europe – reveals only 47% of Europeans trust the food sector. French consumers lead the pack in scepticism.
New research reveals young people aged 18-24 think the global food system is in crisis, and only getting worse – with two-thirds believing that the current food system is destroying the planet.
The current crop of start-ups under the wing of EIT Food -- Europe's largest food innovation initiative -- illustrate the challenges the plant-based sector is looking to overcome.
The world's largest Agrifood Innovation Ecosystem, supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, says regenerative agriculture is vital in helping the world’s biggest foods brands achieve their net zero plans and meeting consumer...
As a new fund announces it will invest up to €30 million in the most promising companies over a span of up to four years, EIT Food identifies to FoodNavigor the problems for which it is seeking solutions.
FoodSparks – a seed fund tailored to support the most promising European early-stage enterprises – has been set up by EIT Food and capital fund manager PeakBridge, along with investors like Puratos, Givaudan and Stockholm-based investment firm Gullspång...
Europe’s agri-food sector is ripe for investment as the region seeks to make its food system more sustainable, healthy and trusted, according to EIT Food.
The European Institute of Innovation & Technology’s food arm received 106 applications to its COVID-19 support fund from different start-ups across Europe. The number was eventually whittled down to just 13.
Innovation plays a major role in igniting ‘systemic’ change in the food system, EIT Food chief Andy Zynga tells FoodNavigator. So which areas are in the most need of attention?
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology’s Food arm is developing a communication series leveraging virtual reality to build trust in and awareness of food science among European consumers.
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) will invest €56.4m in projects that aim to ‘transform’ the agri-food system in 2019, a 44% year-on-year increase.
